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“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.” There are some books that...

When Jill Charron opens her eyes, she finds herself in a hospital bed, fresh from unconsciousness. She is told that she was involved in a...

Frustrated. Irritated. Incredulous. These are the three words that come to mind as I write a review for Frayed by Kara Terzis. It has...

From the mortal world to the Otherworld, Roshani Chokshi's The Star-Touched Queen will take you on a magical adventure, full of exquisite...

As an ardent fan of murder mysteries, harboring an obsession for true crime TV shows (Snapped, Forensic Files, The First 48, etc.), I was...

Lucas is a seventeen-year-old gringo from Houston, who spends his summers in Puerto Rico with his father, a big-shot developer of...

Angela Davis has been an inmate at Brunesfield, a juvenile detention facility, for three years. She’s a tough cookie who has led a hard...

Dreaming of Antigone is the story of Andria, the girl who dresses all in black; the girl who has a scary illness; the girl whose...

It's that time again... Time for Reading Rewind with me and Stacee at Adventures of a Book Junkie! If you don't know about the Reading...

Twilight, the first book in the famous Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, was published in 2005. It swept the bookish world by storm, as...

I have my mom to thank for my love of letter-writing. As a child, anytime I would receive a gift, she’d sit me down at the kitchen table...

“Wow!” Then, “What?” Then, “Hmm. What did I just read?” These were my initial reactions upon finishing Suicide Notes from Beautiful...

Allie's big sister, Leah, is dead. She didn't die in a car accident or from some horrible, incurable disease. No, instead, Leah committed...

Robin is a talented, passionate high school musician, working at the Grape County Dairy diner during summer break to save money towards a...

Though she was but a sleepy toddler standing at the top of the stairs, Apple remembers vividly the Christmas Eve her mother left without...

I believe The Chaos of Stars was my "Waiting on Wednesday" pick a long time back, when I was still operating BlookGirl. The first thing...

Left for dead during a deadly takeover by an evil jinni caste and then sold as a slave to a human through the dark caravan, Nalia is not...

There were a couple times that I thought I wouldn't be able to finish The Secret Sky, not because it is a bad or poorly-written book, but...

The World Turtle exists in several cultures, namely the Mayan and Hindu cultures. The idea is that the world rests on the back of a...

Love and Other Unknown Variables presented a bit of a sneak-attack on my emotions. I admit to skimming the blurb and thinking it would be...